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Originally posted by dmm:
I didn't like how the two alien ships encountered both had WAY WAY higher tech level than Enterprise. How the heck did humans manage to put together the Federation, and be so dominant in it?
This is not that far fetched when you take into account the whole of Trekdom. Historically the Human Race in Star Trek is always a little more eager than everybody else. More curious, always wanting to explore and expand into other regions. So far "Enterprise" is right on in this regard. So our ships usually get pasted in the first encounter with any new race. (Except those named Enterprise of course.
) We are always protected from anialation as a race by the fact that it's always on "their turf" and they never seem to come looking for us until we've managed to come up with a way to defend ourselves. Also in the generally accepted Trek history (as much as their is one) the Humans usually seem to have better engines, and worse weapons than anyone we meet. That allows us to keep the conflicts at a distance from Earth as well.
Think of it in SEIV terms. It's a lot easier to wipe out other races explorer ships poking around your space than it is to send a fleet to wipe him out in his home system. At least early on anyway.
Geoschmo